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The third and final instalment of Peter Nuthall's Farm Business Management series, this volume teaches the practical skills needed to manage a farm, such as risk analysis, budgeting, cost benefit analyses and much more. The key characteristic of this book is its ability to simplify the complex subject of business management into a clear, accessible volume tailored to the topic of farming, by using engaging techniques such as worked examples to fully explain the complex decision making tools necessary for this discipline.

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In sum, the aim of this book is to provide researchers, students, consultants and some farmers with the intellectual wherewithal to 'conduct positive studies of improving farm systems'. These aims are well met. Readers will discover that the more they use this volume, and the companion volumes of Farm Business Management, the better their work will be. --Bill Malcolm, University of Melbourne, Australia

In sum, the aim of this book is to provide researchers, students, consultants and some farmers with the intellectual wherewithal to conduct positive studies of improving farm systems . These aims are well met. Readers will discover that the more they use this volume, and the companion volumes of Farm Business Management, the better their work will be.

In sum, the aim of this book is to provide researchers, students, consultants and some farmers with the intellectual wherewithal to conduct positive studies of improving farm systems . These aims are well met. Readers will discover that the more they use this volume, and the companion volumes of Farm Business Management, the better their work will be. --Bill Malcolm, University of Melbourne, Australia

In sum, the aim of this book is to provide researchers, students, consultants and some farmers with the intellectual wherewithal to 'conduct positive studies of improving farm systems'. These aims are well met. Readers will discover that the more they use this volume, and the companion volumes of Farm Business Management, the better their work will be. -- (01/01/2012)

In sum, the aim of this book is to provide researchers, students, consultants and some farmers with the intellectual wherewithal to conduct positive studies of improving farm systems . These aims are well met. Readers will discover that the more they use this volume, and the companion volumes of Farm Business Management , the better their work will be.

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Peter L. Nuthall has spent many years teaching and researching aspects of farm management. In addition he has developed and managed a team involved in producing and supporting computer aided management systems used by large numbers of farmers. While most of his time has been at Lincoln University in Canterbury, New Zealand, he has also researched and/or taught at the University of Queensland, Purdue University (Indiana), the University of Kent, and the University of Edinburgh. He has also worked for the UK Meat Marketing Board while based at the University of Nottingham (Sutton Bonnington). Many institutions involved in researching and teaching farm management have been visited to gather ideas in both the developed and developing world. He also has experience of agriculture in a diverse range of situations including Russia, India, Fiji, Australia, NZ, USA and the UK. Nuthall has published widely in scientific journals throughout the world, and in monographs as well as having many research results taken up by the popular farming press.

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